If you have seen the excellent documentary “Helvetica,” you may also enjoy this one. This is short documentary about the font Comic Sans. Or click here to watch. Personally, I am not a Comic Sans fan.
Recently, grade 1s at my school were inquiring about transportation. They have just finished this unit. The reason I am writing is because the teachers gave the students choice on how to present. This provided a much more interesting form for assessment and was an excellent vehicle for creativity. Students needed to examine and share what a transportation system needs and how it works etc., regardless of how they presented. Some chose plastercine models, some drew large illustrations, some drew their work via computer and some created slideshows within KidPix. Students were motivated and engaged during the tasks as it possessed a stronger connection to themselves and offered differentiation. When complete, students then planned a field trip to a local area and discussed how they could get there with the knowledge they gathered. Parents were also invited into the class to view the work.
Our grade 2s were examining retelling stories. Some chose to record audiobooks using GarageBand. The group below rewrote a popular story, recorded it and added sound effects. They then used the mp3 as the soundtrack for their shadow puppet performance. Watch below or click here. The point is, the teachers discussed the ideas and outcomes first, and then decided on the tools alongside the students. Make the technology fit you, instead of vice versa
PopTech is a great site similar to TED. It is a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas. Below are some recent and past presentations.
Pop sociologist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has honed in on a profound new question: what separates extraordinary and average people? Discussing findings from his much-anticipated book “Outliers,” Gladwell details how we’re squandering human potential everywhere from the football field to the classroom – and what we can do to change it. Watch video here.
Provocateur Daniel Pink has built a career on his keen insights into business, technology and the economy. Engaging, enlightening and funny, the best-selling author heralds a new job market—one that devalues the logical and rule-based in favor of the artistic, empathic and inventive. Watch video here.
Internet guru Clay Shirky has a unique ability to present the chaos of the Web in stunningly clear terms, as he does here, documenting what a “spontaneously, self-assembling, online philanthropic venture” tells us about the nature of human motivation. Listen as he explains the concept of “designing for generosity,” and what we can learn about it from the Josh Groban Foundation, Napster and a top online mobile phone forum. Watch video here.
Video podcast with Patrick Norton and Matt Cutts will help you quickly recap some useful tips for searching Google more efficiently. You may know a lot of these Google tricks already but refreshing skills once in a while should be fine.
From www.jaindudes.tkWatch below or here via YouTube.
This is also placed on the “ICT Theories and Info” page on this site.
Sniper Twins show you how to stack the memory to the sky with their office rap jumpoff!!!
What does this have to do with education, art or IT? Well, not much but it is cleverly done. Well OK, it is connected to computers, it is creative and funny. Thanks Brian L. for passing it along.
I stumbled across this through Metropolis Magazine here in Japan. It’s iKnow. It’s free (in beta mode) and offers Japanese language lessons via the web with audio clips etc. and offers a personalized study schedule. Really worth checking out to those foreigners living in Japan and to those wanting to study Japanese. They also have an English study area too.
From Adobe: Click the above photo (or here) to view a demo that,
“…illustrates our research to bring interactivity to video editing: Our system analyzes videos using computer vision techniques, enabling interactive annotation, browsing, and even drag-and-drop composition of new still images using video footage.
This is a joint research project of Adobe and the University of Washington.”
Thanks Shane M. for the tip.
